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Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications · Matthew Luckiesh — chapter 29 of 29 · ~292 words · public domain

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Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by italics.

Subscripted characters are indicated by {subscript}.

The following misprints have been corrected: "imgaes" corrected to "images" (page 128) "bove" corrected to "above" (page 177) "verticle" corrected to "vertical" (page 239) "colo" corrected to "color" (Index)

Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.

The inverted "8" and "S" characters at the top of page 45 cannot be properly represented in this text version.

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